EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for August 31, 2020
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for Aug. 30, 2020! Check Your Voter Registration (64 days until Election Day) and take the Census if you haven’t already (Escondido has a 72% response rate so far). Mail ballots will start going out on Oct. 5, 2020. Stay safe and healthy!
Events
- Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020, 6:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting via teleconference. Agenda not posted as of Aug. 30, 2020, 5:00 PM. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
Future Events
- Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020, 6:30 PM: NAACP Escondido Candidate Forum via Zoom. More details to follow.
Escondido Food & Housing
- Take a quick survey on Escondido Food Vision 2030.
- Read-up on Escondido launches first public outreach phase of housing study and Housing and Community Investment Study,
- Read-up and comment on Draft Existing Conditions Report - East Valley Parkway.
- Take the Escondido City Housing Element online survey (July 2020 - December 2020): English and Spanish.
Election
- Plan how you will vote for the upcoming election. Mail ballots will start going out on Oct. 5, 2020. Early in-person voting will also start on Oct. 5, 2020: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday starting Oct. 5 at the Registrar’s office and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 31 through Monday, Nov. 2 at your assigned polling place or the Registrar’s office. Track your ballot at Where’s My Ballot. See Election Day 2020.
- In-related news: read-up on Escondido council reappoints unopposed city treasurer and Top intelligence office informs congressional committees it'll no longer brief in-person on election security.
Postal Office
- Read-up on Info About Local (SDC) Post Office Operations Is Conflicting and Hard to Come By and The Disruptions and Delays of the U.S. Postal Service Are a Medical Catastrophe.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and ask them to support H.R.2382 and S.2965 to repeal the requirement for the USPS to “pre-fund retirement health care costs for 75 years into the future” which had placed an undue burden on the USPS. Ask them to also support H.R.801 to “maintain prompt and reliable postal services during the COVID-19 health emergency”. Note H.R.2382 and H.R.801 passed the House. See Tell Your Representative to Act Now to Save the US Postal Service, Demand the Federal Government Support the United States Postal Service and Tell Congress to Save the United States Post Office.
Local COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on California lawmakers reach deal for new eviction protections.
- Contact Assemblymember Waldron and State Senator Jones and express support for AB-1436 which “would make it so no one could be evicted for unpaid rent accumulated during California’s coronavirus state of emergency”.
- In-related news: read-up on Sen. Brian Jones of Santee Reveals He Tested Positive for Coronavirus, Republican Brian Jones gets coronavirus, shuts CA Senate and Sacramento Report: Jones, COVID-19 and the Irony of Remote Voting (Jones represents Escondido in CA Senate). Choice quote: “A review of Jones’ social media feeds reveals that he did everything to contract the virus — and to possibly infect others [...] On July 4, for example, Jones attended a “freedom feast” at a San Diego church. The event, a protest against California’s ban on indoor church services, included an indoor meal service. Photos on Jones’ Instagram account show him interacting, face to face and without a mask, with an elderly man. In another photo, churchgoers line up at an indoor buffet. Jones is the only person not wearing a mask.”
- In-related news: read-up on Supervisor by Day, But a COVID-19 Skeptic on the Airwaves and How Supervisor Desmond Has Amplified False Coronavirus Misinformation.
Federal COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on Trump Program to Cover Uninsured Covid-19 Patients Falls Short of Promise, CDC was pressured 'from the top down' to change Covid-19 testing guidance, official says and F.D.A. ‘Grossly Misrepresented’ Blood Plasma Data, Scientists Say.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and express support for additional COVID-19 relief proposed by the HEROES Act and for continued funding of testing and tracing. Note that the HEROES Act has passed the House. See Tell your Members of Congress: Fight for the Emergency-Relief We Need and Indivisible's HEROES Act Summary.
- In-related news: read-up on Secret Service copes with coronavirus cases in aftermath of Trump appearances.
Trump Abuse of Power
- Read-up on New York probing whether Donald Trump and the Trump Organization manipulated asset values, New York attorney general files legal action against Trump Organization, revealing state investigation into the company’s financial dealings and How Trump's company charged the Secret Service more than $900,000.
- Read-up on Jared Kushner’s Private Channel With Putin’s Money Man Kirill Dmitriev and Justice Dept. Never Fully Examined Trump’s Ties to Russia, Ex-Officials Say.
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